Caption

Forest dieback in Sauerland, north of Lüdenscheid, cleared area, diseased trees, over 70 per cent of the spruce trees are diseased, damaged, mostly by the bark beetle, which was able to spread due to drought and heat, climate change, attempts are being made to adapt the forest to climate change by replanting other tree species, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Jun 20, 2020

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24G50_384

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

120,7Mb (7,7Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7952 x 5304 (300dpi)

Keywords

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